Hey Sumo-lings!

I hope you're well!

It's been a busy couple of months since my last update. Here's everything that's landed since then:

Beat Mode now does full-length videos

Beat Mode used to be capped by what your browser could render - about 5 minutes. Beat mode videos can now render on our servers instead, which takes the limit up to a full 90 minutes. Full mixes, DJ sets, entire albums and your browser doesn't have to do the heavy lifting.

We've also added downbeat detection, so effects can land on the "one" of each bar instead of just any beat.

More control over Animated GIFs

Animated GIFs in your designs no longer have to loop forever! You can now set exactly when a GIF appears, and have it play through once and disappear. Great for reaction moments, stickers "Like and subscribe folks!" and accents that shouldn't hang around for the whole video.

Landscape videos in the flows

Due to popular demand, the slideshow, subtitle and podcast flows now support landscape as well as portrait. If YouTube is where your audience lives, you're covered.

Multiple color palettes

This was another request - If you make videos for more than one brand or more than one client, you can now save multiple color palettes and switch between them instead of overwriting one set of colors.

Faster exports

Browser exports are no longer locked to real-time playback. They now run as fast as your machine can render. Output files are smaller too.

Oh and one more thing - get paid to talk about SoundMadeSeen

Plenty of you have told friends, clients and communities about SMS already. You might as well get paid for it: our affiliate program pays you 20% of every payment from anyone you refer, for their whole first year. If you've got an audience of podcasters, musicians or creators, it adds up quickly.

Apply here: soundmadeseen.com/affiliates

As always - try the new stuff and tell me what breaks, and tell me what you'd like to see next.

Rane

Hey Sumo-lings,

Another quick update from me.

The last couple of weeks had a few performance hiccups and bugs that I know affected some of you - apologies for that.

The good news: they're fixed, and I've put better monitoring in place so I catch things the moment they happen rather than after you tell me.

On the brighter side, I've just added a few new AI video generation models so you're working with the current state of the art: Seedance 2.0, Happy Horse 1.0, and Grok Imagine.

If you've been following the space they need no introduction; if you haven't, trust me - these are the ones to be using right now.

Happy creating,

Rane

Two new effects landed in the editor this week: Colour tint and VHS scanlines, both previewable live.

VHS scanlines is particularly good for the lo-fi aesthetic that's everywhere in short-form right now, and who doesn't love a little bit of colour in their lives? Give them a try and let me know what you think.

Behind the scenes, I've been working on something I want to share because it directly affects what I ship for you.

Running a small but growing product means there's always more to build than time to build it. The hard part isn't ideas - it's deciding which ideas are actually worth my week. Until recently I was making those calls based on whatever felt loudest in my inbox, which is a terrible way to prioritise.

So I built a weekly system that ingests product data, user activity, search trends, and feedback signals, and tells me the three things most worth my attention each week. Not what to build - that's still my call, but where to look first. It runs every Monday morning and posts a report I can read with my coffee.

What this means for you: the roadmap is now driven by what the data says users actually need, not by what's most fun to build. If you've left feedback in the comments here, replied to my emails, or posted about SMS somewhere I can find, that signal feeds into what gets prioritised.

The effects this week shipped because the priority items were handled and I had room for something visual and fun. That's the right order of operations.

If there's something you've been stuck on, or a feature you've been waiting for - ask in the questions or email me at [email protected]. I read everything, and now I have a better way to make sure it actually translates into shipped work.

Cheers,

Rane

Hey Sumo-lings!

I hope you're well!

A problem that a few of you have mentioned: the SoundMadeSeen editor has a lot of depth, and getting comfortable with it takes a bit of time (to be fair, there is a lot to learn). I didn't really want to strip anything out, because plenty of you love the fine control.

So instead, I've just added flows - four guided erm - flows - that take you from audio to a finished, shareable video without opening the full editor at all.

You pick the one that matches what you're making:

Podcast clips - drop in an episode, we pull the clip and style it for social.

Music videos - upload a track, we detect the beats and build a visualiser.

Narrated slideshows - write a story (or have SoundMadeSeen write it for you), automatically generated visuals, chapter-synced.

Subtitled videos - add captions to a video you already have.

First video in under 10 minutes. That's the goal.

The full editor hasn't changed and it's just one click away from every flow - there's still a direct "upload audio" option on the dashboard for when you already know exactly what you want.

Flows are a shortcut. They sit alongside everything you already have.

If you want to get to a video as quickly as possible, SoundMadeSeen is there for you.

Give flows a try!

Cheers,

Rane

Hey Sumo-lings!

Three things shipped this week in SoundMadeSeen:

Timed text & shapes with entry/exit animations: add text or shapes onto your clip and have them animate in and out exactly when you want. Bonus: fixed a line-height bug on multi-line text, added a line-height tool, and threw in an extra-large font size while I was in there.

Faster, smarter Beat Mode detection: beat detection is quicker now (way quicker) and much better at picking up downbeats, so your visuals sync tighter to the music.

Auto-generated Inspire Me prompts: in the standard editor, clicking the "Inspire Me" button will now automatically build an image prompt from your transcription (if you have one and your audio is under 10 minutes). Less staring at a blank box, more making stuff.

More soon!

Rane